Alright, 618 now on Daybreak and
I'm sure everyone out in our
audience felt the same thing.
We did the the light shoot in the studio,
a major, major, just a shaking building
here. We have heard a lot of noises
here and now we're all getting text
messages from family and friends asking,
was that an earthquake? Patrick, what are
we not? I'm getting the same.
My daughter just texted me in Hamburg.
My initial thought was there was
some kind of an explosion downtown,
maybe a truck hit the building.
Because I've experienced
earthquakes being from California,
they tend to feel different than that.
There's usually a a rumble,
a rolling sensation that
sounded more like an explosion.
Yeah, not a slow roll,
like a an just a shock,
right? But you're hearing
from family in Hamburg.
I'm hearing from family in Amherst.
Everyone is blowing up our phones
right now asking, what was that?
And we do believe it was an earthquake.
If you didn't feel it,
it only lasted a few seconds.
We weren't.
On camera when that happened,
we were there was some video that was shown,
but all of us looked at
each other and it truly was,
frankly was very frightening for all of
us who've never experienced anything.
We didn't know whether it was something that
was just happening here at the building.
But now that we're hearing from
everyone and seeing on social media,
it's clear that this was an
earthquake and we're trying to
determine just how big it was.
We've never experienced anything
that size in my lifetime here
in in Western New York.
You know, we we do hear about tremors
because the clarinet Linden Fault runs
basically under Attica State prison.
So there is a major fault line that
runs through Western New York, yes.
However, I have never felt because
that was more than a tremor. It
felt like a truck is a building
that was again, earthquakes
that are are caused from faults,
which is basically boundaries
between different plates often can
have an explosion or an initial.
Stock, but they tend to have a rumble.
They last a while right?
They can take was about 20 seconds.
Yes they can take 30 to 40 to
up to a minute to two minutes.
This was just an initial explosion
with nothing that followed.
There was a sound right,
which was probably just the building
shaking and nothing that followed.
And I'm getting reports
all over the place now.
If you
have, we don't know about
any damage right now.
If you gotta look for one thing, OK, if.
You do have any damage and
it's safe to take a photo.
Or if you've got video from your from
your camera at home showing the shaking,
please send it to us.
You can send it to us on social media
just to use the hashtag beyond two.
You can e-mail it to us here at the station,
you can text it to us as well,
or we have a feature on our app where
you can also send us photos and videos.
We'd love to see them so
that we can share them.
Everyone's got surveillance video.
Nowadays,
send it to us so we can share it on
air this morning here on Daybreak.
Yeah. And a truck going by on the street.
We'll set off our ring alarm.
So you know the the doorbell camera.
So I'm sure there's gonna be
a lot of video coming out.
But that was just, you know,
just that initial shock and then
a little bit of rumble after.
And we were in the middle of a
story where we could talk to
each other as it was happening.
We looked at each other and we said,
first is that an earthquake?
And then our immediate,
our second question is or did something just.
The building, right.
That's what it sounded like.
And it probably felt like
that way for you at home.
Also, as you're waking up,
I'm sure that this woke you up out
of bed because it was that big.
Just well, I just heard from
our old friend Kevin O'Connell,
who said he spoke to Caltech.
Caltech is they specialize in earthquakes.
He says that they confirmed it was a quake.
I'm still waiting to that.
Will take a while.
That'll take a little while to determine.
I'm still waiting to hear from the USGS.
They are the official organization
that that confirms quakes.
Sometimes it takes a little while.
I can't.
I can't believe it's anything other
than that given that we're hearing from
people all over all over Western New
York. Right. Kevin like
you spent a lot of time in
California as well. So and and and and
kudos to him to think to to contact them
and again we're not hearing any reports
of explosions but on social media
that's what everyone is asking was
there an explosion somewhere because
that's how quick and strong this was.
But we're not hearing reports of that yet.
I'm, I'm checking, you know?
All of our sources right now to find out
what was going on, and it does seem like.
It was an earthquake, yeah.
And. And so why not?
Why? Sources here,
let's, let's do this.
Why don't we go forward with our
weather forecast and we'll continue
to find out exactly what that was.
As you mentioned, quakes do happen here.
Of course, we think of them in California.
We think of them in parts of
Missouri where they get them.
They also do happen along the Atlantic Shore.
They're known to happen in
South Carolina and other places,
but they can't happen.
I'm sure a lot of people are wondering,
we talk about aftershocks with quakes.
Can we expect or should we
expect anything, right, or shocks
are usually associated with large quakes.
OK. So this is probably.
A singular event.
I just can't believe what that
felt like in terms of having been
through earthquakes myself.
That felt like no other
earthquake I've experienced
because of how strong it
was or how short it just
just again, that probably was,
if I were to estimate it was a shallow quake,
probably in the three to four
magnitude just based on how it felt.
But usually they last a while. They rumble.
They that you feel the waves kind of travel.
This was just a sharp explosion of a feel.
And then it was over, it rattled.
I'm sure things probably fell off shelves.
You heard Windows rattle.
I'm sure it woke a lot of
people up and startled people.
But let's, let's carry on with the forecast.
And you guys continue to monitor,
right? And once again,
send us any video that you might
have from any of your cameras.
At home, so that we can share them here
on Channel 2 this morning on Daybreak.